MS recently released the “March 2014” update to the SQL Server tooling for Visual Studio 2013, which was named SQL Server Data Tools for previous Visual Studio versions. Among the most notable new features are support for SQL Server 2014 and several productivity updates that simplify development and testing, also on SQL Azure. Read more about it on the SQL Server Data Tools team blog here.

Worth noting for some of us, is that Visual Studio 2010 is no longer supported with new features and updates for SSDT, although the dacpac’s and other projects remain fully compatible throughout 2010/2012/2013. The update to SSDT that was released at the time VS2013 came out, was the last one. Personally, I am only keeping my VS2010 around for its Installer support, so I am ok with that.

(Add. 10-04)

Today I noticed that the order of installation of updates is important. On another machine, I upgraded SSDT first, but was then unable to install the 1.3 update to the Microsoft Office Developer Tools (12.0.30225.00, to be precise). The latter’s Web Installer the complains about missing requirements and refuses to continue:

SQL Server Data Tools is installed, obviously, but not recognized, probably because of newer version numbers. I don’t really mind much since I don’t actively develop using the Office Developer Tools, so I’ll just wait for the next update. But if you do use both, I recommend you should install the ODT update first, and then SSDT!